Lee Kyou-hyuk

Quick Facts

Full Name	Lee Kyou-hyuk
Occupation	Speed Skater
Date Of Birth	Mar 16, 1978(1978-03-16)
Age	46
Country	South Korea
Horoscope	Pisces

Lee Kyou-hyuk Biography

Lee Kyou-hyuk is one of the most popular and richest Speed Skater who was born on March 16, 1978 in South Korea. Speed skating athlete from South Korea who won the World Sprint Speed Skating Championship the record- breaking four times. He also took home ten in a row National Sprint Speed Skating Championships between 2001 and 2010.

He and Jin Sun-yu are both famous speed skaters from South Korea. and He and Jin Sun-yu are both famous speed skaters from South Korea. are two famous Speed skaters hailing of South Korea.

Lee began the Olympic season with fifth place during a 500-meter race in the Utah Olympic Oval, but also finished 19th on a 1,000 meter race that weekend. In Heerenveen in January, however, he won his first World Cup race in four years, sharing the win with Gerard van Velde, whose last-pair effort was good enough to tie with Lee’s time. He also won a B group race during that World Cup event, and finished third on the 1,000 meters behind two Dutchmen. A week later, Lee recorded his best placing at a World Sprint championship, though he finished sixth and further behind the winner than he had been the previous year. His best placing in an individual race was fifth on the first 500 meters.

Lee Kyou-hyuk (Korean: 이규혁 ; Hanja: 李奎爀 ; RR: Lee Gyu-hyeok, born 16 March 1978) is a South Korean retired long track speed skater who specializes in the 500 and 1,000 meters. He was the 2007, 2008, 2010 and 2011 World Sprint Speed Skating Champion and the 2011 World Champion for 500 m. He is one of four men to have won the World Sprint Speed Skating Championships four times.

His older brother is figure skater Lee Kyu-hyun.

Lee Kyou-hyuk Net Worth

Lee Kyou-hyuk is one of the richest Speed Skater from South Korea. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Lee Kyou- hyuk 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He began competing at his first World Junior Championships at age thirteen.

He broke world records in the 1500m and 1000m races both at the Olympic Oval, Calgary.

With those results, Lee went into the Olympics, and started on three distances, 500, 1,000 and 1,500 meters. On the 500, Lee finished the first run in fifth, setting a personal best of 34.74 and finishing 0.13 seconds behind leader Hiroyasu Shimizu, but could only register the 10th-best time the following day and finished in fifth place. He finished in eighth place on both the 1,000 meters and the 1,500 meters, though on the latter he was within half a second of a medal. Lee finished off the season with three top-ten placings at the World Cup finals in Inzell, which secured eighth place in the overall 500 metre World Cup.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

Lee Kyou-hyuk height 5 ft 9 in Lee weight 75 kg & body measurements will update soon.

Who is Lee Kyou-hyuk Dating?

According to our records, Lee Kyou-hyuk is possibily single & has not been previously engaged. As of December 1, 2023, Lee Kyou-hyuk’s is not dating anyone.

Relationships Record : We have no records of past relationships for Lee Kyou-hyuk. You may help us to build the dating records for Lee Kyou-hyuk!

In the 1997–98 World Cup, Lee improved to 11th in the 1,000 meters and 16th in the 500 and won a World Cup race in Calgary with a world-record time of 1:10.42, his first world record. Over that weekend, the world record was cut 1.15 seconds. The record stood for a month until Jeremy Wotherspoon beat it in a domestic Canadian race. Lee missed the final two World Cup meets, before and after the Olympics, but after four of eight sprint events he was placed fifth in the 1,000 meters World Cup and tenth in the 500 meters World Cup. While still a world record holder, he won silver at the Asian Single Distance Championships in Obihiro, only beaten by fellow Korean Kim Yun-Man. Lee finished 12th at the World Sprint Championships in Berlin two weeks before the Olympics, and registered 8th (2 × 500) and 13th place (1,000) in his two Olympic appearances.

Facts & Trivia

Lee Ranked on the list of most popular Speed Skater. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in South Korea. Lee Kyou-hyuk celebrates birthday on March 16 of every year.

Lee bounced back in 2000. In the first World Cup race of the season, Lee won the B group in the first 500-meter race, and finished third in the second 0.19 seconds behind winner Jeremy Wotherspoon. His B group appearances in the 1,000 meters was also good enough for promotion, and though he got no further podium places, he finished 11th overall in the 500-meter World Cup, his best placing to date. He also qualified for the World Single Distance Championships for the first time, taking 12th place on the 1,000 meters as his best result, and went below 1:10 for the first time in a World Cup race.